Sensing that their party may indeed be on the cusp of returning to power again, seems to have triggered off the unbearable arrogance and over- confidence, now being displayed on a daily basis, by the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) tiresome hawks - such as that bragging-brat: the vulgar, frightfully common nouveau riche Kennedy Adjapong.
Alas, it is clear evidence, if ever it was needed, dear reader, showing just how right former President Rawlings was, all along - in demanding, when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) regime of President Mills first came to power, in January 2009, that all those members of the previous NPP regime of President Kufuor, who were guilty of past wrongdoing, ought to be prosecuted and jailed.
Since the daft and suicidal dismissal of the former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, instigated by some of the powerful individuals surrounding President Mills, and the collateral damage it has caused the president's personal standing with millions of ordinary Ghanaians, as well as that of his administration, there has been a growing realisation within the NPP's leadership, that their party may actually be pretty close to realising its goal of returning to power again.
Clearly, it is that realisation which has led to the ratcheting up of the taunting and ridiculing of President Mills and his administration, by those angry-young-men in the NPP - such as the abrasive and verbally-aggressive Anthony Abayeefa Karbos and their ilk - who, it would appear, have never really forgiven ordinary Ghanaians, for having the temerity to vote their sodden party out of office in December 2008: and are thus prepared to see Ghana go to the brink of the abyss, if need be, if that is what it will take to get their confounded party back into power again.
The outrage, which their constant subjecting the person of the president to all manner of indignities represents, also shows up the utter failure of the strategy of accommodation and reconciliation with their political opponents, previously advocated by some of those powerful individuals in the NDC, who surround President Mills - and who supply the presidency's backbone, as it were, and, in a sense, have literally been psychologically propping up that hapless duo: the ever-so-gentle and meek President Mills and the similarly-natured Vice President Mahama.
Those anti-Rawlings NDC big-wigs surrounding the president, apparently counselled, when the NDC initially took power, that President Mills' new regime, ought to chart a new course - by not repeating the negative patterns of the past: when it was almost guaranteed that yesterday's crooked politicians, and the prominent businesspeople who were the previous regime's crony-capitalist bankrollers, and consequently prospered mightily during their tenure, would have their businesses destroyed by endless probes, tying them up in sundry court cases and starving them of the lucrative government deals that made them prosper so, under the departed regime.
The recent utterances of Kennedy Adjapong & Co. - who have vowed to ensure that all those guilty of wrongdoing in the Mills administration, will be prosecuted and jailed when the NPP returns to power again - is proof-positive that the would-be NDC "reconcilers" and "appeasers" have, in effect, been led up the garden path by the perfidious Kufuor & Co.'s NPP.
Simply put, the anti-Rawlings faction of the NDC, have more or less been toying with the power their party won the hard way, after eight long years in the political wilderness - and consequently no longer deserve to be calling the shots in their hard-of-hearing party. Rawlings' faction must now take charge of the NDC and the government. And must do so quickly - before it becomes too late to make any real difference in December.
So, clearly, it is important, for the long-term survival and continued viability of the NDC, that the world-view of the party's "reconcilers" and "appeasers" should no longer be the prevalent and dominant viewpoint, in the NDC's scheme of things - in as far as the adoption of a new strategy to ensure that that party defeats the main opposition party, the NPP, again, in the December presidential election, goes.
That is why it is so important, for the sake of all Ghanaians who love Mother Ghana passionately, that the "real" NDC does not leave the unpleasant but necessary task, of acting quickly to remove President Mills and Vice President Mahama from office, until it is way too late for their removal to have any real effect on the NDC's electoral fortunes, in the December 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The question is: having been proved to be so right in advocating for the adoption of a tough line, in dealing with members of the Kufuor-led NPP regime, guilty of past wrongdoing when the NDC first came to power, precisely when are ex-President Rawlings, and all those NDC members still astute enough to remain loyal to him, going to act, to ensure that President Mills and Vice President Mahama are forced out of office, one after the other - to enable the NDC replace them with a dream-ticket line-up for the December 2012 presidential election: a President Martin Amidu and Vice President Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings?
The "house-cleaning" of the crooks in the NDC - which ex-President Rawlings rightly says must now take precedence over the prosecution and jailing of corrupt members of the Kufuor regime, to be credible - can then proceed apace under President Martin Amidu, whose anti-corruption credentials, and determination to deal ruthlessly with wealthy and well-connected criminals ripping off Mother Ghana, no one in this country today, doubts.
With respect, if the loyalists of ex-President Rawlings want their "real" NDC to retain power after the December presidential election, then the time to act to rid their party of that weak and ineffective duo, President Mills and Vice President Mahama, is now - not tomorrow or the day after that. A word to the wise...
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